Vietnam a top investor in Cambodia

Vietnam was among Cambodia’s top five investors as of last April with US$3.2 billion in 171 projects. It is also Cambodia’s third largest trade partner with bilateral trade topping $3.3 billion as of 2015, Vietnamese Commercial Counselor Nguyen Bao said. Keep reading ...

Vietnam moves closer to market economy

Vietnam was striving to perfect the market economy and committed to creating the most favourable conditions for foreign investors, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said at the Vietnam Global Investment Forum on 30 September. With improvements in the business climate, infrastructure and the financial markets, Vietnam ...

Thailand slips in competitiveness survey

Thailand has slipped one place on the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) and is now ranked 32nd out of 140 economies analysed in a survey released by the World Economic Forum on 30 September. This year’s results reversed the uptrend that the Kingdom had been on in previous ...

Vietnam GDP grows 6.8% in 3Q

Vietnam’s economy grew 6.8% in the third quarter, up from 6.1% and 6.5% in the first and second quarters, respectively, the government said on 29 September. Keep reading ...

Retailers to invest B100bn to make Thailand shopping hub

The Thai Shopping Centres Association said it will invest 100 billion baht to turn Thailand into a regional shopping destination. Keep reading ...

Foreigners pull record US$5b as Southeast Asian stocks sink

Foreign investors are selling Southeast Asian stocks at the fastest pace on record as the region’s economic outlook worsens and the US gets closer to raising interest rates. Overseas funds unloaded a net US$5.1 billion (S$7.28 billion) of Indonesian, Thai and Philippine shares in the third ...

Vietnam third-quarter economic growth accelerates to 6.81 pct

Vietnam’s economic growth quickened in the third quarter, buoyed by foreign investments and exports growth that contrasts with the performance of many of its neighbours.   Gross domestic product rose 6.81 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, according to figures released by the Hanoi-based ...

Lotteria to open in Laos

Fast-food restaurant Lotteria signed a franchising pact with Lao company, Soxay Chaleun Group, to make inroads in ASEAN countries. Keep reading ...

Who is the biggest investor into ASEAN?

The competition to invest into ASEAN countries has been heating up of late.  As a region which has been growing, ASEAN still has a large pool of relatively cheap labour in the developing countries. ASEAN is also home to some 600 million consumers with a fast growing middle ...

Express road to airport in works

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport on 22 September announced the start of feasibility studies aimed at building an express elevated toll road that would extend from Phnom Penh’s city centre to the airport by 2021. Public Works Minister Tram Iv Tek said that China’s Henan ...

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